5 security workers, consisting of a Colonel, a Major and a sub-inspector, and 2 unidentified militants were eliminated during an 18- hour anti-militancy operation in north Kashmir’s Handwara area.
” In a firefight in Changimul, Handwara of Kupwara district, 2 terrorists were eliminated and the team of five security forces workers, consisting of 2 Army officers, two soldiers and one cops sub-inspector, likewise died,” a Srinagar-based Army representative stated,
The spokesman said the operation was released after the intelligence inputs were received that terrorists were taking civilian inmates of a home in Changimul village hostage.
Authorities authorities said the operation was called off on Sunday morning after the bodies of the security personnel and the militants were spotted inside the home at the encounter site in Changimul location, nestled in a forest zone.
